3rd test?

[DaFreak]

Is this the third test?
www.half-life2.com/admin

when you go to that url you are given a username/password box titled TEST.

I can't take the honor for this. It was Manook who discovered it but it was somewhere hidden in the hl2.php thread so i thought it d be more obvious out here

 

[Harryz]

Third test is here!

 

[Asuka]

Wow cool stuff hehe.

So now we have 2 new things.

http://www.half-life2.com/hl2.php
and
http://www.half-life2.com/admin

 

[DaFreak]

Common people lets get buisy then :smoking:

 

[Bobcat]

I have an odd feeling it "might" just be the admin panel for the website...

Though I doubt anyone would care.

 

[Asuka]

I have an odd feeling it "might" just be the admin panel for the website...

Though I doubt anyone would care.

Thats what i thought but dont think so. Why would it say TEST?

 

[Absinthe]

:cheers: :bounce: :rolling: :imu: :imu: :rolling: :bounce: :cheers:

Sorry, just had to use smiley spam to convey my happiness.

 

[Manook]

Found the admin one a while ago but thought it must have been the admin for the site. But with all the hacking etc.. I would have thought they would have the admin folder in an hard to guess folder name or stored locally.....

 

[Bobcat]

Thats what i thought but dont think so. Why would it say TEST?

Because they're working on it?

 

[aircapsol]

Well i looked at the source for all the pages possible in the hl2.php and didnt find anything but i might have missed something.

 

[Immortal]

Lets get started!

 

[Kotik]

I don't know! Nothing special, just trying to help:

If you look closer:

http://www.half-life2.com/hl2.php?move=w forward
http://www.half-life2.com/hl2.php?move=a left
http://www.half-life2.com/hl2.php?move=d right

The same as the keyboard. Maybe someone should try something like s (back) (Hm, doesn't work)

 

[switch]

hmm *twidles thumbs* the fact that its /admin/ doesnt seem to make sense that its a test, maybe they are just testing themselves. If it was the third test I would have thought the comment would be something like "This is the third test" sort of like how it was for the second one.

 

[Kifpe]

Maiby they are only setting up "the third test"... Don't know...

 

[The Monkey]

Let's get this on the front page, Chris!

 

[Kiva128]

If we crack it, we might get the gold date or something! ! Start crackin' damn it!

 

[GMania]

the password's gaben. username valve.
lol, jk

 

[Kifpe]

What does PHP stand for? Is it the name of the game?

 

[GMania]

PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor." It's a recursive acronym. Basicly, that means the acronym is, by definition, a phrase with another acronym or the same one inside it.
Kinda makes ya wonder where they originally thought up "PHP."
Why not UGH? UGH Grammer Handler. Yeah, I'm bored.

 

[cadaveca]

it's a type of scripting.

 

[switch]

Hmm, I think this is looking to be the admin panel for the website or whatever, as valve's main site also has it:
http://www.valvesoftware.com/admin

 

[Kifpe]

PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor." It's a recursive acronym. lol

Argh man! I'm getting tired. That was a dump question... I knew that...

 

[razorblade kiss]

Common people lets get buisy then :smoking:

Can uncommon people participate too?

 

[Gorgon]

Can uncommon people participate too?

hmmmm, we all common people here m8 :E

 

[The Monkey]

Why is it not on the front page? This is the 3rd test!!!11!1!

 

[razorblade kiss]

Why is it not on the front page? This is the 3rd test!!!11!1!

The Admins and Mods are playing a game of soggy muffin. Give them a couple hours.

 

[Seppo]

I got excited too, but I don't think this is the 3rd test after all

Check this link that switch posted, http://www.valvesoftware.com/admin

Any similarity? Yep...

 

[mashed]

Hang on... what was the second test?

 

[monkeydust]

Yeah, really doubt it is a test. Many sites have admin areas that are off the root in a password protected admin folder (I have done it in my own sites).

 

[maximus0402]

halflife2.net reputation...

It looks like were the site that is the best at cracking these tests and finding out the answers...this was a post at hl2fallout forums:

QUOTE (//exec extreme.exe @ Sep 23 2004, 01:26 PM)
someone post this on other hl2 forums, I have no idea how to crack the passwords


Its already been posted on HalfLife2.net. They'll eventually solve it... END QUOTE

Looks like were the ones to solve things around here, you all should be proud!!!

 

[Bigcheese]

haha thats why i joined this forum and not fallout

 

[Chris D]

Guys, I would imagine that the /admin page is actually administrator access to each of the site's content management systems to allow the Valve guys to post news on the website.

It's common that websites used web-based PHP forms to upload content.

e.g. http://www.halflife2.net/admin_news.php

That's where we post ours, I imagine the URLs you've found is where Valve posts theirs.

EDIT: There's one on Steampowered.com too

 

[Harryz]

It looks like were the site that is the best at cracking these tests and finding out the answers...this was a post at hl2fallout forums:

QUOTE (//exec extreme.exe @ Sep 23 2004, 01:26 PM)
someone post this on other hl2 forums, I have no idea how to crack the passwords


Its already been posted on HalfLife2.net. They'll eventually solve it... END QUOTE

Looks like were the ones to solve things around here, you all should be proud!!!

^Thats my thread.

 

[Harryz]

Guys, I would imagine that the /admin page is actually administrator access to each of the site's content management systems to allow the Valve guys to post news on the website.

It's common that websites used web-based PHP forms to upload content.

e.g. http://www.halflife2.net/admin_news.php

That's where we post ours, I imagine the URLs you've found is where Valve posts theirs.

EDIT: There's one on Steampowered.com too

Then why would it say "Test?"

 

[Yombi]

Then why would it say "Test?"

because they were 'testing' it?

I wouldn't bother over-analysing this (again) :|

 

[Chris D]

Then why would it say "Test?"

If it was anything to do with one of our tests, then it wouldn't be on every single Valve website...

EDIT: There's even one at http://www.cs-conditionzero.com/admin

Can't you see, that the "admin" part actually does relate to the fact that it's the standard access point for the site admins to access administrative features on the sites?

 

[ailevation]

:dozey: It isn't THE third test, possibly one of the tests though. Remember when the forums would get attacked by spoiler posts? I clicked one, it lead me to what the third test is(not really sure if it is THE 3rd test). It's pretty safe to say what it is because it's nothing too spoiler, it was a pic of Father Gregori. You find it in one of the steam pre-loads.

 

[Harryz]

@Chris_D - Good point. Why do you always have to ruin our fun with your smart ass comments?

 

[Seppo]

:dozey: It isn't THE third test, possibly one of the tests though. Remember when the forums would get attacked by spoiler posts? I clicked one, it lead me to what the third test is(not really sure if it is THE 3rd test). It's pretty safe to say what it is because it's nothing too spoiler, it was a pic of Father Gregori. You find it in one of the steam pre-loads.

So are you...are you saying that...that you know what the third test is? All hail the prophet

 

[Chris D]

So are you...are you saying that...that you know what the third test is? All hail the prophet

He doesn't know what the third test is. The spoiler attackers titled the spoiler threads with "Third test" references to get more people to open the threads and view the content. Obviously the content being a link and a spoiler. The link obviously generating yet another spoiler thread.

See the "cleverness" behind it?